Thursday, January 4, 2007

A Brief Glimpse of the Man Himself

  1. Best Lessons in leadership came from...
  • Being a missionary (training and leading groups of missionaries).
  • Serving in church callings.
  • Serving as Vice President of the Psychology Society for the last one and a half years.
2. Best lessons in communicating came from...
  • Having a girlfriend.
  • Reading "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.
  • My Mother's amazing example.
3. Organizations experienced:
  • The Idaho National Lab (INL) working as an intern.
  • College including affiliated societies and organizations
  • Church
  • Scouts
  • Different Jobs
4. Insights from the previous question:
  • I have been working at the INL in Idaho Falls as an intern for the last year. I have come to realize the complexity of the organization and how important it really is to have things organized well and as simply as possible. The INL is a very large organization and could definitely use the services of a professional Organizational Consultant!
  • I am also serving as the Psychology Societies Vice President for the fourth semester in a row. Organization really helps us to delegate and get much more done than in previous semesters before we delegated to lower level leadership.
5. The traditional American Hot Dog is tasty but is nothing compared to a Polish Sausage.

6. Places I've lived:
  • I grew up in Salt Lake City and have basically lived there my whole life. I lived in Poland for two years while serving my mission. I also lived in Laie, Hawaii for six months while attending BYU-Hawaii. I constantly think about Hawaii and dream of going back as much as possible!
7. An achievement of which I am proud:
  • Last semester I was published with the National Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. I was co-author of a paper called "A Taxonomy and Database for Capturing Human Reliability and Human Performance Data".
8. Industries in which I am interested:
  • Cross-cultural and international organizational consulting
  • Real Estate!
  • Real Estate!
  • Real Estate!
  • Technology
9. My Goals:
  • Be able to retire by age 35
  • Become a nationally recognized OB Consultant
  • Have a fun, successful and righteous family
  • Serve another mission with my wife in the future
  • Climb Mt. Everest
  • Go motorcycling in the Namibian dessert
  • Explore the Caribbean Islands on a yacht

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